The Emmett index. [volume], July 28, 1921, Image 2

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your money in ample time for renewal.
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CURRENT COMMENT
tytHE new traffic regulations, pub
1 lishtd in last week's Index, and
whiek become effective August 1, con
tain many excellent provisions. Motor
driven vehicles have become so num
erous, and reckless driving of such
common occurrence, that seemingly
karsk regulations are necessary. The
new lew, however, seem to us to con
tain one provision that Is manifestly
unjust, and ans might any vicions end
not soma far from the truth,
section r ef erred to is the one giving
vehicles the right of over pedes
The
trians. Drivers of motor cars are
thus given grantor license instead of
having it abridged. The pedestrian is
shorn of any protection whatsoever,
and is at the mercy of every careless
or reckless driver. If injured while
crossing a street, he probably would
have no recourse under the law, >
cause he has no business to get In
the way of a vehicle. Of couse, the
careful driver would not run a pedes
trian down. Rut if all were careful
drivers, drastic traffic regulations
would not be necessay. The reckless
driver is the one to be feared. His
license is increased under this sec
tion.
^NOTHER criticism that has some
merit is the time limit placed on
parking cars in the two principal
blocks on Main street. That regula
tion is undoubtedly necessary in cit
ies, 'where streets are narrow and
traffic is enormous, hut we doubt the
necessity or the wisdom of such a re
gulation in towns the size of Kmmett.
Main street is wide and the parking,
of cars ut the curbing on each side
leaves abundance of room for travel.
The restriction adds to the inconven
lence of those who coma to town to
trade, while giving no benefit in re
turn. That part of section 11 might
well be eliminated until traffic con
gestion requires a change. The othc
sections of the ordinance are good
and should be enforced rigorously.
well j
J^UT in enforcing the ordinance, the
example set by Boise is
worthy of consideration. Until the
public becomes thoroughly conver
sant with the provisions of the law,
rigid enforcement should not be made,
especially in the case of out-of-town
people and strangers, who have no
way of learning of our traffic regula
tions. For the first offense, an ar
rest might well be dispensed with and
a warning given. In the case of speed
ing, however, no mercy should be
shown.
r J , HE action of the railroad compan
ies in refusing to grant lower rates
serves only to intensify the fight of
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A Picnic Every Day
—With Eut more Bread
Cut the slices thick—pile
them up with butter, or
honey , or jam.
How the youngsters thrive
on it, and efl.ioy it! Only
the purest ingredients go
into
Eatmore Home
Made Bread
The Body Builder
The kind that makes
youngsters strong and hus
ky.
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At your Grocer's
Ask for it today
The PALM BAKERY
abippcra throughout the entire coon
try for reduced ratea. Freight traf
fic officiala especially ought to see
the handwriting on the wall. A storm
is gathering and is bound to break
with all its fury before many months
unless something is done by the rail
roads themselves to head it off. When
that comes the danger is that the
pendulum will swing too far on the
other side. That has been the history
of such revolutions,
makers are shortsighted. They iearn
to see only one side. Their mission in
life has been to get all the traffic wiii
bear, add that is what has come to
pass jiow
do with it?" ask the rate fixers. "Dont
the farmers and stock raiders have
to ship their stuff to market any
way?" That sounds rather plausible,
but it won't bear analysis. For in
stance, Sunday's daily papers told that
the farmers in the potato producing
section around Caldwell will not even
dig their potatoes, because the freight
ratas are prohibitive. Much wheat will
be held, not only for a better price,
but also in hopos that freight rates
will come down. Business judgment
would seem to dictate that the roads
would make more money by heuling
a lot of passengers and a lot of freight
ait reasonable rstss than by hauling
a few passengers and a little freight
at exorbitant rates. If the railroad
haven't broad vi
Bailroad rate
What have the rates to
sion to see the storm coming and do
something to dispel it they can ex
pect no sympathy when it does break.
w* late to mention the matter, but
there are some worthy folks in
Emmett who really ought to harvest
their crop of weeds. They are ripe
and ready to cut. Delay is dangerous,
for, if a weed is not cut when it is
ripe, most of the seed will shatter and
fail upon the ground and it wil! be
impossible to recover it. Of course,
this will result in a heavy volunteer
crop of weeds next season, but the
present indications are that the mar
ket price of weed seed will be low and
the crop then is likely to be harvest
ed at a loss. Get out your trusty
Armstrong mower in the cool of the
morning and see what u wide swath
you can cut in the municipality.
r | 1 HE kiddies were swimming in the
popular pool in the irrigation ditch
at the corner of the school house
grounds at the corner of First and
Hnys. Mothers were there keeping
an eye onyheir little ones and taking
pleasure in their enjoyment of the
affair. Here and there spectators
llookcd on with Interest and told of
the pleasures they didn't have when
they were children. Of particular in-1
terest to us was an aged, white-haired
man,
h«. stood and stood, watching
the youngsters dive from the bridge
and splash around in the cooling wat
er in joyful abandon,
wutching this thing for an hour," said
he. "Gosh, but I'd like to be u little
boy again in this day and age. Chil
dren have so much better times thpn
they did when I was a little shaver."
"I've been
As uge draws apace one learns that
it is better to give than to receive.
Personally we would rather have the
sincere love of a child than the praise
of the mighty. In the long run, our
deepest satisfaction comes from giv
ing that upon which no money value is
set—whether it be comfort to the
troubled, guidance to the inexperienc
ed or happiness to children. And it
may be that the last is the greatest.
We like to think so at least.
of
D° you appreciate what a "ready to
serve" organisation means. It
usually represents the work, experi
ence and saving of years of one or
more individuals. Take a newspaper
I as an illustration. Too often its value
I to a town is under-estimated by the
j leading citizens of the community.
I Yet the deadest town in the world is
the one without a newspaper.
I newspaper is called upon to support
every public movement "free of
charge". It must help the church, it
j must lead the way for-civic improve
The
merits and it must pioneer for all
manner of new development enter
Hhen the good work has been
"leading citizen" of the com- !
munity sit hack with a smi e of satis.!"!
faction and too often take credit for
the work which would have been im i
possible without a regularly issued :
prises.
lone the
newspaper. Good times and bad. the
paper must come out.
threaten to discontinue advertising
Merchants
f
increases arc made,
stop subscrip
if its policies do not agree with
But sooner or later every cit
n the community must have thi
ff the newspaper for
Little do they con
for the public good it is con-1
doing, that is often cussed j
for no just cause, but that alwu\
■s out on schedule and is "ready toi
serve" in its field, although the re
quirements of the individual asking
the service may come ten years apart, j
; necessary rate
Subscribers threaten t
! tion
hfrjtm.
izen
»rvices
so me
purpose or other,
si.h r the triais of the average coun
try editor lb maintaining a "ready to
serve" institution that is seldom
than
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Itch. Itch. Itch. Scratch. Scratch.
Scratch- The more you scratch the
worse the itch. Try Doan s Ointment, j
For eczema, any skin itching. 60c a,
box ' !
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Cigarette
T° m«» In ttw
delicious Burley
tobaooo flavor.
It's Toasted
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TALES OP TOWN
BLEST AKE THE WAYS
Blest are the ways of thoss who know
of sorrow just thsir share,
And those who have with other hearts
a bit of fret to bear,
For they shall be as humans are and
not as gods may be,
Rejoicing in life's simple gifts of bird
and flower and tree.
Blest ars the ways of those who walk
content of heart and mind
To see as much as they should see, be
blind where love is blind;
Just happy mediums in the strife that
pecks at all in time,
And sweet with love for sweets of life
that bloom in laughter's clime.
Blest are the ways of those who dream
and those who waking feel
The beauty of the dreaming world
upon their spirits steal;
Who cannot hate nor be unjust, so bal
anced and so strong
They find behind the hardest heart
a bit of tenderest song.
Some men play the game of life
with the idea that the umpire gives
'em the worst end of it.
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Peculiar, isn't it, that one of the
few dry spots in Pueblo during the
flood was the Baptist church?
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i do not vearn for riches,
j But wish 1 hail a chance
; To own a pair of britches
I Like them there Palm Beach P ants -
i c j 8 j riK . the
These fellows wh
are forever crit
women who have bobbed
their hair might trv wearing their
own hair lonR to show the women
huw they should )ook
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Samson shorn of his locks was no
more pitiable a derelict than the mod
ern woman with bobbed hair. For the
woman with a headful of hairpins is
all powerful, but without them she
can't even button her pump strap.
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Our idea of a grouch is the man
who kicks at the noble watermelon
because it isn't seedless. Consider the
wisdom of the Lord. He made the
Emmett watermelon 60 pounds of 100
per cent joy and then gave the glori
ous thing the potential power to inil
tiply itself 6000 times.
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If anyone doubts the soundness of
the saying that "men are but chil
dren of a larger growth," all he has
to do is to watch the crowd that is
watching a ball game. But who's go
ing to watch a crowd while a ball
game is going on?
dd very
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Wte've just bid looking up id the
dictiodary what it says about hay
fever. It says—atchoo!—it says hay
fever is a fuddy disease that hits od
ly the idtellectual—atchoo!
idtelligedt classes. Buch obliged,
Bister Webster—atchoo!
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A ranchman walked into a Wyoming
newspaper office saying, "I want an
obituary for one of my cowpunchers.
How much will it cost?"
"Two dol
lars an inch," rep i ied the ncwspa p er
man . "Never mind," said the rancher
can ' t Hffort ; it xhat was 0
f o0 [ three."
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Writing of the late Dempsay-Car-■
in a
penter fight, the Medieai News,
quarter page advertisement describes
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"Nuxated Iron
j Dempsey whip Carpen
ders what would bavn
| Dempsey taken the '
J coursi
j A party of Emmett f >1
ing on a picnic the oth
cars. Two girls and one
were wedged into the fr
one car—and the hack sei
t.v. A little girl who w;
noticed this and raid t
occupants of the front s
are pretending that tl
back seat to this
But I can see it."
helped Jack
■ er. One won-;
happened hail i
Nuxated Iron"
entrance into
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previous to oi
the world war.
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er nicht in
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ounj. man
nt seat i
was emp
m the party
the crowded
t:"You folks
re isn't
car, aren't you
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This sad scene occurred in a drug
store: Two men were drinking at the
, fountain Raising bln ,,-1 r
; da fountain. Raising his glass of
(root) beer > one of them gave the
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Are You Throwing Your Money Away?
Why not save some of your money by buying where you
get Better Goods at Lower Prices.
We carry a stock of better hardware and we invite
you . to compare our prices with other goods and see
where you get full value for your money.
We have a full line of International Tillage and Cut
ting* Implements and have a full line of repairs.
You want a maehine that will do the work under all
conditions? All right, see us.
We are here to serve.
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Hawkins Hardware Co.
EMMETT, IDAHO
toast, "Hen's looking at Volstead—
the !!•*?!!**!" Then his voice failed
him; tears came to his eyes; and with
a low moan he sank to the floor.
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"Pat," said the priest, "ye'fe drunk.
Now if ye ever get like this again
I'll turn ye into a rat. I may' not
see ye, but I'll know about it. Ye
mind that!" Sometime later Pat went
home and stumbled into the kitchen,
where his wife was feeding the cat.
"Biddy," said he, "watch me. When
ye see me gettin' little and the hair
growin' out on me, and me whiskers
gettin' long, for the love of Mike,
keep yer eye op the cat!"
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The great building which this
mighty government built for the sen
ate to deliberate in has nothing on
the humble Index building. Dispatches
state that during the debate on the
soldier bonus bill there was a leak in
the roof just above the press gallery.
During the shower Sunday there was
a leak not only over the "press gal
lery" of The Index office, but also
over the mezzanine floor, the
Italiski court, the sanctum sanctorium
and the paste pot.
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A Highlander who prided himself
on being able to play any tune on the
pipes perched himself on the side of
one of his native hills one Sunday
morning and commenced blowing for
till he was worth. Presently the min
ister came along and, going up to
MacDougall with the intention of rep
rimanding him severely, asked in a
very harsh voice, "MacDougall, do
you know the ten commandments?"
MacDougall scratched his chin for
moment, and then, in an equally harsh
voice, said: "D'ye think you've beat
me? Just whistle the first three or
four bars, and I'll hae a try at it."
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"Mosquitoes are awful bad this
year," remarked Old Bill Misgivens as
he rammed his hand into his shirt to
scratch his back. "Bjat the most rav
of
has
is
go
enous and the stoutest mosquitoes I
ever saw were up in the Alberta coun
try, Canada. I was camping alongside
of a river and the pests were so tar
nal bad I couldn't sleep without a
cover, so I just took the box off the
wagon, turned it upside down and got
under it. Well, the mosquitoes would
come and sock their bills through that
wagon bed in a way that was most
interesting to note. In the course of
half an hour the bottom of that wag
on bed was just full of hills and I
chuckled to myself to think how I had
fooled those mosquitoes, but I chuck
led too soon. That wagon bed would
weigh at least 500 pounds, but blamed
if those pesky mosquitoes didn't fly
away with it, leaving me entirely un
protected. There were as many as
5000 mosquitoes just sitting around
waiting until that wagon bed was car
ried off, when the whole swarm hop- !
ped onto me. I covered myself upl
with a blanket, and then they tried to
j pull the blanket off of me. The next j
j day 1 found that wagon bed up in the j
I top of a big cottonwood tree, where j
the mosquitoes had dropped it."
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The Same Everywhere
The editor of Paisa Akhbnr, a na- I
j five newspaper of Lahore, India, says.
"I have used Chamberlain's Colic and
I Diarrhoea Remedy many times among
! my children and servants, for colic
j and diarrhoea and always found it ef
fective."
Carbon paper-—the kind that won't
smut—at The Index office.
Biliousness and Constipation
"For years I was troubled with bil- 1
iousness and constipation, w-hich made
life miserable for me.
failed me. 1 lost my usual force and
! vitality. Pepsin preparations and ca-1
: thartics only made matters worse. I
j do not know» where I should have been !
; today had I not tried Chamberlain's!
Tablets. The tablets relieved the ill
feeling at once, strengthened the di
gestive functions, helping the system
g do its work naturally," writes Mrs.
R OS a p 0 tts, Birmingham, Ala.
My appetite.
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Here It Is!
Another of those fine house plans.
One of the many that we have to
show you.
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Get it started now so it will be
ready for winter. Why not a
home of your own?
Citizens Lumber Co.
I. J. DICKSON, Manager
Corner Grocery
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Home of Good Eats
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Everything good to eat. Fresh green
vegetables all the time. Early Eureka
and Peachblow Seed Potatoes, D. M. Fer
ry , Northrop King, Lilly & Morse Seeds.
SO MANY TRADE HERE
so MANY PHONE ORDERS
SO MANY MAIL ORDERS
SO MANY SEND RY FRIENDS
AU goods haV€ declined and our prices are Right.
Spot Kus'h * 11 3 Spec ' a ^ a per cent discount for
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SEE WHAT CASH WILL BUY
W. W. WILKERSON, Proprietor
Phone 160
Auto Delivery
GENERAL
BLACKSM1THING
Hetheriugton Co.
Electrical Bapptj Hou M
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REPAIR WORK
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
■«> iris By « | iip H
Armatur» and IMor Repair!**
H. D. Buys
•fall kind*. Coati ito to tot «»
Washington and Dion Streets
(Riverside Addition)
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